As everyone seems to know at this point, the situation in Ferguson is only going to get worse before it gets better unless a miraculous change occurs soon. Evidence of such came today around 12:20pm when police officers were involved in a fatal shooting just outside of Ferguson, leaving a 23-year-old Black male dead. Per the AP:

“A large crowd has gathered at the site where St. Louis police officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man after a reported convenience store robbery.

“St. Louis Police Capt. Ed Kuntz says police responded Tuesday after a report of a robbery at the store. Kuntz says the suspect had a knife and refused to drop the weapon.

“Kuntz says officers opened fire when the man raised the knife and moved toward them.”

For anyone wondering why they didn’t taser the guy, it’s because reportedly tasers aren’t standard issue for St. Louis police, according to MSNBC’s Christopher Hayes. Either way, all reports seem to indicate that the young man had an apparent death wish after witnesses confirm his proclamations and the fact that he moved towards the cops. But with tensions on high, the details of the situation won’t change the circumstances, which now include another dead person.

Just talked to a woman who has lived nearby the scene of the second shooting for 48 years. She said she is terrified about what comes next

for the record since st. louis is screwed up in more ways than one … this was in st. louis city so it was st. louis city cops. ferguson was ferguson pd. the dudes in riot gear have been mostly st. louis county cops which does NOT include st. louis city.

They’re killing us. One by one. Slowly but surely. 400+ years of slavery, discrimination, racial profiling, and anger of all those issues and others are coming home to roost. Welcome to the future of America, sadly.

Since you said “us” I’ll say “you”. look at all the senseless murders going on in the black community in a bunch of cities. A cop kills someone (did he deserve to die? no of course no that’s not the point) people start to riot. 120 murders in St. Louis last year between black on black and no one is rioting about that. Look at all the killing going on in Chicago, but there is no real uproar about that because it’s mostly black on black. The killing in general needs to stop, not just cops on citizens.

I don’t get why people kill. I don’t get how you could live with yourself after taking someone else’s life like that. Just makes me mad when I see someone like @Keem Thebasedgod Johnson Talking about “they’re” as if all white people are racist and killing black people for no reason, meanwhile there is a lot of black on black crime in the communities as well. I just wish we could all get along between different races and same races.

We don’t hear about a lot of the work people are dong in cities like Chicago but they are working to try to do something about it. Black people CAN care about both situations. You’re not going to see a lot of news outlets talk about the work done to stop Black on Black crimes. It’s just not going to get viewers. You ever wonder why we rarely hear about Black kids that go missing but when a White kid goes missing it’s front page news?

Man yall still on with this “Why yall don’t care about black on black crime.” Some of yall really need to do some research, but that would require you to actually take the time to form your own opinion and not repeat the same thing the last person said. So tired of hearing that.

If this was the original case there’d be no riots in Ferguson. It’s about as justified as it gets.

That said, I think the police should amend the “To Serve and Protect” motto. If you’re not willing to deescalate a situation without killing someone to do it you’re not serving or protecting anyone but yourself.

There is something called “Death By Cop” whereby there are some people who look to being killed and martyred by the police. Obviously these people are not in their right mind. IF this is how it went down I do hope it stays calm out there.

Look at the similarities between Ferguson and Gaza.
The disproportionate show of force by the Ferguson police is comparable to that of Israel just like the bottles of water thrown by the youth in revolt are symbolic and harmless as the rockets from Hamas.
It is no accident when a small town is the reflection of curbing liberties occurring everywhere.
The World is becoming a Police State with new values being imposed.
Once you recognize the Zionist Plan and its end game it will be easier to understand the events.
Soon you will see revolutions everywhere in the World.
Entire populations will be first reduced to poverty and then pitted one against the other until exhausted they will accept to live submitting to new rules in a World dressed in chains: the New World Order.
What you see between Israel and Palestine is the gauge to visualize what is in store.
Israel was a concept before it became a State and today is a State like no other. In fact it is the only Country in the World that has never defined its borders since its Declaration of Independence and now is ready to expand its territory through the use of any means.
The New World Order is precisely a Greater State of Israel that extends to the whole World.
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“The disproportionate show of force by the Ferguson police is comparable to that of Israel just like the bottles of water thrown by the youth in revolt are symbolic and harmless as the rockets from Hamas.”

That is a completely fucking moronic comparison. Possibly the dumbest thing I have read on the internet

The last part was SHOCKING. Defend your self then protect the community?? THat’s something a citizen would say.

The Police are supposed to protect and serve…the preservation of life. If he was clearly out of his mind “walking erratically talking to himself, asking to be killed etc.” then they should have tased him.